On Monday, Rodrigo Bentancur received a seven-match suspension and a fine of 100,000 pounds (around 120,000 euros). The English Football Association (FA) accuses the Uruguayan midfielder of having made racist remarks towards his Tottenham teammate Heung-Min Son.
” Her ? Or any of Sonny’s cousins, they all look more or less the same! »he responded last June during an interview in his native country, during which the journalist asked him to collect a jersey of the South Korean player.
Bentancur in the lineage of Thierry Roland
“He acted inappropriately and/or used offensive words and/or brought the game into disrepute”reacted the authority, specifying that there was “a reference, explicit or implicit, to nationality and/or race and/or ethnicity”. Bentancur apologized to his teammate, acknowledging “a very bad joke”. “He made a mistake, he knows it and apologized”Heung-min Son then announced on his social networks.
This slip is reminiscent of that of Thierry Roland during the 2002 World Cup. “There is nothing that looks more like a Korean than another Korean, especially dressed as footballers, especially since they are all 1.70 m tall, they are all brown, apart from the goalkeeper”commented the sports journalist during the Blues’ match against South Korea.
